A hearing will determine whether former Bahraini national soccer team player Hakeem AlAraibi, who has refugee status in Australia, will be deported back to Bahrain despite his fears of being tortured and killed.

Sayed Rabbani fled Afghanistan as a young boy in 2001. He spent his teenage years in refugee camps before being granted asylum in Australia. Now he says every moment children are kept on Nauru causes more suffering, which will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Hakeem Ali AlAraibi was detained at Bangkok Airport at the request of Bahrain a week ago and remains in custody, despite being cleared to return home after the Red Notice used to detain him was lifted.

A secret Australian government body tasked with making decisions on medical transfers from Nauru discussed eradicating a longstanding requirement that medical care in offshore facilities must meet "Australian standards", according to internal documents.